Whats the longest shot you have made hunting?

Let it be known that I can usually keep my one shot groups sub MOA
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Me too. And not only that, but I can *always* get a one-hole, multi-shot group, provided I shoot enough shots. The hole may be 12 inches across, and it may take a few hundred rounds, but it'll be a "one-hole" group. :)
 
My longest shot was on my first bull elk. It was around 350 yards across a canyon. Solid heart/lung shot. He trotted about 20 yards and sprayed blood all over the bushes...
 
Rifle--275 yds (I no longer hunt w/ a rifle)

Bow--38 yds (don't hunt much with a bow now, either)

Handgun--135 yds. (now we're talkin':D)
 
Not really a hunter but...

When I was younger I managed to take a couple of woodchucks diagonally across our front field, about 210 yards, done with a .243 Winchester out of a Remington 760 with the best Leupold scope I've ever seen (Dad's rifle).

The hunting that amazes me these days is how I used to hit rats on the run with my dad's Remington 552 from 10-40 yards. My "young eyes" were sure sharper than the "old eyes" I woke up with today :rolleyes:
 
My most impressive, but not farthest was a 175 yard, one shot to the head deader then a door nail groundhog with my Savage 17 HMR and Hornady 20 grain XTP bullets. I took the shot on a whim and ended things pretty rapidly for the little fella.

F-C
 
Woodchuck on a grass airstrip - 375 measured yards - two shots to get him. TC encore in .223
Woodchuck - same airstrip - 325 yards - first shot. same TC encore in .223
deer -shotgun - 115 yards rem 870 cantilever rem copper sabots
deer handgun 225 yards - tc encore 15" in .308 win. win supreme 150 gr silvertips.
small game - squirrels - probably just under 100 yards with a .22 bolt action rifle.
Coyote - 250 yards with a weatherby SVm in .223 55 gr sp
carp - 10 yards 12 ga rem 1100.....( I was young and dumb )
 
I'm hesitant to even post this, as I don't really know if it qualifies as hunting, but there was a critter involved,so here goes...

In 1990, a week before season, myself and my two hunting partners were up scouting the elevated basin we were going to hunt opening day. We eased along the ridgebacks most of the day and by midafternoon decided we should start heading back to the truck. As we neared the valley floor we decided to stop for a break. As it happened, there was a pond below us.

A muskrat had the mis-fortune of cruising across the pond at that time. Like a redneck, I said "Watch this". I had 300gr Sierras in front of 77 gr 4350 in my old Sako 375, and had shot quite a bit at distance with that bullet in the summer. I estimated range to be well over 500 yards and very steep. From sitting, I gave er a little Kentucky windage and touched it off. One of the guys is hollering that he thinks I hit him. Truthfully, I expected to maybe get within a couple of feet, but of course I didn't let that be known.

By the time we tromped down there, the wind had blown what was left of him over to the bank.

To this day, the one guy still tells anyone who will listen about that shot. It does make it hard for me to explain how I clutched up on far larger and closer targets... Just last fall he bought one of those new Leupold rangefinders, and when he was headed up to that same basin, he stopped and lazzed from the pond up to the outcrop I had shot from. 654 YARDS! Yes, it was just a lucky shot, but don't tell anyone.
 
375yd shot on a 10pt whitetail, with a Rem 7 mag.

Ranger Al can verify that the 139gr Hornady bullet out of this cartridge is VERY accurate.
 
have to brag some on my shot a crow resting in the top of a tall hickory with a slight breeze (actually I have done this 3-4 times) around 135 paces up a hill across the flat top. AMT small game hunter .22 LR using Super-X sighting thru a Simmons 3X9. resting on a porch railing corner of my house. I have missed way more than I've hit tho at that perch which seems to be a favorite of theirs. adjusting for the windage is the tough part.
 
Deer - 700 yards running
Elk - 450 and 350 yards
all with .270
Racoon 125 yards 22lr
Cotton tail 75 yards with air gun
 
Ground Squirrel- 315 yards with my .22-250.

Coyote- 217 yards with my Remington 700vls in .308.

Wild Pig- 230 yards with my Winchester Model 70 in .270.

Quail- 53 yards Rem 1100 12ga.

Chukar- 60+ yards w/ Rem 1100 12ga.
 
That chukar shot reminded me of a day that the Good Lord wasn't favoring a dove. Back in the days when I didn't quite understand that "full choke" on an old Model 12 12-gauge was for paper shells and not plastic shells with the plastic shot dealie, I missed a lot. What it was, was, for all practical purposes I had an "extra sure-enough full choke" critter.

So, one day, just for the heck of it, I took a shot at a way-over-yonder dove. Completely amazed to see him crumple and fall. Ninety yards. One pellet had hit him in the eye.

I'll take luck over skill, any day. :)
 
So far, I've been lucky... I guess.

The farthest shot I've ever taken was on a cow elk from about 100-110 yards.

Easy.
 
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